FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. WAKING UP IS HARD TO DO!! An old song, new lyrics.

I’m one of those people who tends to wake up full of energy. So what was that song doing, playing in my head:

Waking up is hard to do

I recognized the melody. Happy, upbeat, bouncy, though about a potential break-up - Breaking up is hard to do. (I’ll give link at the end to the original song.)

Here’s what I was hearing. The singers are people waking up.

WAKING UP IS HARD TO DO

let’s give waking up 
another try
   ‘cause now we know
we’ve been living a lie

but waking up is hard to do

we gotta see
    it’s not true
        what we’ve been told
           big bad lies

all the news
big fat lies
    and we can’t hide
    we took the shots
took poisons
inside

waking up is hard to do

but we see
we see that it’s true
that they fed us
big fat lies

we took the shots
the poison pills
now people die

it hurts
but it’s true
to know we believed
their big fat lies

politicians and doctors too
everyone on the news

waking up is hard to do

we believed
when they lied

we believed
we were sheep fast asleep 
lined up for kill shots

now we see
so many die

we wanna give
sleep
another try
   but now we know
we go to sleep
maybe death comes by

waking up is hard to do

we were deceived
we believed
and now friends die
from swallowing
a big fat lie

don’t want to believe
we’ve been deceived
took the shots
and now we die

wake up world wide

we bought lies

poison shots

connect the dots

let’s give waking up 
a try
   ‘cause now we know
     we’ve been living a lie

but waking up is hard to do

we gotta see
    it’s not true
      what we’ve been told
          big bad lies

but waking up is hard to do

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (Remastered) - Neil Sedaka
1962 - original release

Posted March 25, 2024